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" The spacious cavern of some virgin mine, Deep in the womb of earth — where the gems grow, And diamonds put forth radiant rods and bud With amethyst and topaz — and the place Lit up, most royally, with the pure beam That dwells in them. Or haply the... "
Anglo-American Literature and Manners - Page 187
by Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 312 pages
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The Idle man [by R.H. Dana].

1821 - 276 pages
...coloured light. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white...
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The Idle Man, Volumes 1-2

1821 - 534 pages
...the night, And fades not in the glory of the sun ; Where crystal columns send forth slender shaft1 And crossing arches, and fantastic aisles Wind from...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white...
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The Idle Man ...

Richard Henry Dana - 1822 - 344 pages
...coloured light. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky and the white drifting...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 17

1853 - 636 pages
...and branch, and leaf, over all the forest. Then the scene is said less to resemble earth than some " Fairy palace that outlasts the night, And fades not...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars." — Lattimore. NAMES. IT is certain that the Saxons changed the appellation of nearly all the places...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...glory of the sun ; Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches, and fantastick aisles Wind from the sight in brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye : — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky, and the white...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 10

1832 - 598 pages
...glittering ring, and arbours hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep in the womb of earth — where the...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky and the white drifting...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...Oh ! spot The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep m the womb of earth — where the gems grow, And diamonds...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye,— Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky and the white drifting...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot, The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep in the womb of earth — where the...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white...
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Poems

William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 pages
...crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches ; and fantastic aisles A WINTER PIECE. 1*9 Wind from the sight in brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye,— Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white drifting...
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The American Common-place Book of Poetry, with Occasional Notes

1839 - 430 pages
...them; or, haply, the vast hall Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night, And fades not in the glery of the sun; Where crystal columns send forth slender...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye :— Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky, and the white...
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